July 18, 2006
Upon witnessing the renewed violence in the Middle East as Israel and Hezbollah square off, I’m reminded of Clint Eastwood in the movie Dirty Harry when he’s asked how he can be certain that the serial killer he’s pursuing will continue to kill. “Because he likes it,” Dirty Harry explains.
This, in a nutshell, sums up those in the Middle East. They like–no make that love– violence. Year after year, through cease-fires and civilian withdrawals from various “homelands,” the carnage continues unabated. So, I ask, “When are we going to stop wringing our hands and start embracing the death and destruction?” It’s not about statehood or hegemony…it’s about a group of people that are by their very nature violent and clannish and predisposed to gutless killing. It’s ingrained in Arab culture, indeed, it’s ingrained in their very souls.
So let them die, but keep American boys out of the mess. I simply have to laugh when people talk about establishing peace in the Middle East, or anywhere else for that matter. It AIN’T GONNA HAPPEN!!!! EVER!!!! So give it up…let those who want to fight kill each other off and spare me the crocodile tears about the “innocent civilians.” These “innocent civilians” are the people shouting in the streets and burning American flags. Let’s kill all them, too. You’d better believe, given the chance, they would kill us. It seems silly to me that civilians are supposed to be somehow sheltered from the violence perpetrated by their various leaders. The sight of dead civilians, to any civilized culture, would be an incentive to cease and desist. Sadly, in the Middle East, there is no such civility—so let the Middle East burn, but keep our boys out of it.